Cahn-Six Concert Pieces for Solo Timpani-3-6T

Six Concert Pieces for Solo Timpani by Bill Cahn presents exciting works for unaccompanied timpani for the advanced performer. These pieces include a variety of styles influenced by music from Western Classical and Romantic periods, North Indian tabla drumming and West African rhythms. Each piece may be played alone or in any combination.

Pieces include -
Canzone
Etude
Raga No. 2
Quatrill
Petite Sonata
Afrodditty 2

Number of Players: 1
Difficulty: Grade 5-6
Instrumentation: 3-5 Timpani

Bill Cahn has been a member of the NEXUS percussion group since 1971, and was principal percussionist in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1968 to 1995. Born in Philadelphia in 1946, Bill has performed with conductors, composers, ensembles, and artists representing diverse musical styles - Chet Atkins, John Cage, Aaron Copland, Chuck Mangione, Mitch Miller, Seiji Ozawa, Steve Reich, Doc Severensen, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and Paul Winter. He has conducted programs with symphony orchestras, and his compositions for solo percussion, percussion ensemble and percussion with orchestra/band are widely performed. His fourth book, "Creative Music Making," on freeform improvisation was published by Routledge Books in 2005.